Restructuring for School Effectiveness: Leading, Organising and Teaching for Effective Learning

Abstract

Dr Clive Dimmock is a Senior Lecturer at the Graduate School of Education of The University of Western Australia. Before that he worked for many years at University College, Cardiff. In this paper he stresses that the quality of a school is best judged by the quality of the teaching and learning which takes place within it and not by the quality of its organisation and management. Nevertheless, as Dimmock argues, there is mounting evidence that the two may be related and that it may now be possible to identify with some confidence the structural characteristics of schools which provide effective teaching and learning opportunities for all students.